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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? (discuss.online)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I’ve switched from win 10 to mint for an old i9900k and 1080 to run Helldivers 2 and it worked so well I put it on my newest rig to replace it (9800x3d RX 9070xt) with little to no problems. It does take a little while to get things tailored to how you want. The bios clock keeps being off (but OC settings remain) so maybe the battery is dying already. Been putting off replacing it since it’ll require a bit of disassembly.

I then tried Bazzite on the i9900k and ran into a couple problems. Multiple monitors pose issues with the mouse not staying on the game and requires an applet or app to keep it contained (no issues with Mint). HD2 runs the same performance but it stutters every second or two, making it unplayable. I’ll have to see if I can troubleshoot some more or try a different distro.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

After Bazzite I switched to Garuda. No regrets. Might be worth a look.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

what applet keeps hd2 mouse contained? mouse drifts to other monitor on windowed fullscreen, game crashes on alt tab in fullscreen. pls answer fast hive lord about to

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/prevent-mouse-from-going-beyond-monitor-bounds-when-gaming/9740

Or it may have been Scopebuddy.

I also believe I had to specify the screen resolution to make it work correctly.

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

I believe it was Gamescope. It's been a while but I just looked it up again and you'll need to add "--force-grab-cursor" in one of the fields.